Connecticut western news., 1887-04-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Two hundred and fifty carpenters strike at Chicago.
 -Thirty-four inches of April snow at Han. cock, Mich.
 The murdered girl of Railway has not yet been identified.
 -Chas. De Lesseps says the Panama Canal will be completed in 1889.
 Rhode Island was carried by the Demo- crats and Equal Fighters.
 Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, prominent South Carolina Granger, is dead.
 President Arthur's New York residence sold or SPA, 75O to tailor.
 A handsome blonde of 19 horsewhipped her unfaithful lover in Jersey City.
 Heavy labor vote in Milwaukee. One-ffth of the Topeka, Kan, women voted.
 Thirteen Baptist missionaries have sailed from New York for Uppr Congo, Africa.
 The propeller Adriatic arrived at Albany from New York, the first boat of the season.
 At a fire in a crowded New York tenement house, twenty persons were seriously burned.
 The Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe sold for S35o, ,O0O. It was bought by Mrs. Phoebus.
 There is reported controversy between Controller Maynard and Secretary Endicott.
 Forty rebelling prisoners at a Chicago prison were brought to terms without blood shed.
 -Indian-Agent Osborn, of the Ponca, Paw nee and Otoe agency. has killed farmer in self-defence.
 Gen. Paine will build new steel yacht to defend the cup. She will be about the size of the Mayfower.
 An animal tanner of Forepaugh's had one hand terribly torn by the tigress he was cares sing through the cage bars.
 The will of Mr. William R. Travers was admitted to probate. He left all his property to his widow and nine children.
 Knights of Labor being in convention at Harrisburg, Mir. Powderly made two speeches to strike the keynote of the occasion.
 MT. Simeon B. Chittenden, of Brooklyn, N. Y, has made provision to give Yale Uni versity library building worth $100,000.
 An equestrian statue of General Albert Sydney Johnston was unveiled at New Orleans. Jefferson Davis addressing the spectators.
 The defeat of the Labor candidate for Mayor of Chicago, leads parties interested to declare: 'sThe red flag has beat us; we must give the socialists back seat"
 The Interstate Commerce Commission de- eided to temporarily suspend the clause of the law forbidding railroads to charge greater rate for short haul than long one.
 A steel stem for the new cruiser Baltimore, now building at Cramps shipyard, Philadel- phia, weighing 15,0O0 pounds, was cast with
 Thrifty Senator Sherman has sold for SSo,00o Findlay, O., property for which be paid S10, 900 month ago.. The Senator re- fuses $125, ,0OO for the hundred acres for which he paid $50, 900 at the same time
 At the April meeting and banquet of the Baptist Social Union in New York, the moral influence of the secular press was discussed. While some of the guests denouncd d sensa- tional journalism, Robert Collyer said that the press was an eternal Investigating committee doing noble work.
 A terrible epidemic of measles in an ag- gravated form is raging among the factory employees living in Brookside, Tenn. There of which proved fatal. Six children have died in one family during the past week. and two others are expected to die. The disease is cpl demic all over East Tennessee, but there is no other instance where it has proved fatal.
 A valuable brood mare belonging to the stock farm of Norman Barnard, near Avon lale, Pa., broke it's leg recently, and Dr. Ewing, of West Grove, set the broken limb and left it in good condition. In the animals plunges afterward the leg was again broken, and Dr. Huidekoper, of the University oi Pennsylvania, having been sent for, advised amputation. This was done by Dr. Huide- Roper, assisted by Dr. Ewing, and the animal is said to be doing we'll. This is the first case on record of such an operation in America
 Across the top of staircase well-hole, 9C feet deep two New York painters fixed plank with the aid of stepladder. They tested the temporary platform, and deciding that It was secure, began sandpapering the iron work pre- paratory to painting it. While shifting theil positions, one of the men made fatal step The plank turned, the stepladder slipped an, the scaffolding collapsed so suddenly that neither could save himself. Both uttered shrieks which startled everybody in the build ing In their descent down the well, the un fortunate men made desperate efforts 10 seize something firm. They came in contact witl the iron work repeatedly, but their momentum made their efforts intellectual. Both struck | the concrete floor and were disfgured almos beyond recognition. There was no spark ot life in either body after it struck.